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A pathetic, unsigned letter full of hate and threats – and memories of some of those it represents marching through Liverpool last year wearing face masks, hoods and sunglasses...

Why is National Action called National Action? Shouldn’t it be Cowards R Us?

A poison pen letter written on the group's headed notepaper to Mayor Joe Anderson would be funny (and not just because of the spelling mistakes and bad grammar) if it wasn’t so sad, and didn’t concern such a serious issue.

The neo-Nazi group is planning a so-called “White Man March” in Liverpool this Saturday – a city that is overflowing with contempt for the group and its appalling views.

If the idiot who wrote the letter wasn’t an idiot, he or she would have seen the irony of bleating about its “God given right of public expression and freedom of speech” – before making threats that Liverpool “will go up in flames” if the racist march is banned.

These mindless morons have their own perverted vision of a “better world” – but it’s one built on fear, ignorance, incitement to violence and undiluted hatred.

'The letter ends with a laughable attempt at melodrama'

You don’t need to read between the lines to work out that their desire is to cause disorder – you just have to read the lines. Detailing how “easy” it would be to ensure our city goes up in flames, the shy letter-writer talks of how three or four of its number “wearing masks and gloves” (there’s that bravery again!) could get what they want by beating up a few black people, setting cars on fire and smashing up a few shops.

Such actions, the letter says, would cause non-whites to “erupt like a volcano”. And here, no secret is made of the cowardice of such people – as the letter goes on: “All we have to do is run and they will do the rest.”

The letter ends with a laughable attempt at melodrama: “ONLY BULLETS WILL STOP US!”

Well, maybe the coy boy/girl behind it couldn’t bring him/herself to say: “ONLY A SUDDEN OUTBREAK OF COMMON SENSE, DECENCY AND US ALL GROWING UP AND GETTING LIVES WILL STOP US!”

I don’t want 150 sad excuses for human beings marching through our city, but if the Mayor is unsuccessful in stopping them perhaps the best response would be for people to laugh in their cowardly (masked) faces.